RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Unequal Opportunities
JF Feminist Media Histories
FD University of California Press
SP 109
OP 129
DO 10.1525/fmh.2018.4.4.109
VO 4
IS 4
A1 Banks, Miranda J.
YR 2018
UL http://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/4/4/109.abstract
AB This article examines the precarity of labor for women working in US broadcast television during the long 1970s, focusing on interventions by government agencies, trade unions, and individual writers and producers, with a particular focus on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) 1974 Women's Committee Report, the first major statistical survey to track the representation of women as creatives within American television. This article puts qualitative and quantitative data in direct conversation: where one captures the nuances of personal experience and the other highlights the extent of inequality, together they help fill gaps in understanding the long history of struggles for equity in media production.